Gluster storage works on a similar principle to NFS where it takes the
uid and gid of the actual process and uses it to access the storage
volume on the remote server. This introduces a need to chown storage
files on gluster via native API.
virStorageBackendLogicalCreateVol contains a piece like:
if (vol->target.path != NULL) {
/* A target path passed to CreateVol has no meaning */
VIR_FREE(vol->target.path);
}
The 'if' is useless here, but 'syntax-check' doesn't catch that
because of the comment, so drop the 'if'.
If a parentaddr was provided in the XML, have getAdapterName lookup
the stable address. This allows virStorageBackendSCSICheckPool() and
virStorageBackendSCSIRefreshPool() to automagically find the scsi_host
by its PCI address and unique_id
Rather than assume that NOT FC_HOST is SCSI_HOST, let's call them out
specifically. Makes it easier to find SCSI_HOST code/structs and ensures
something isn't missed in the future
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091866
Add a new boolean 'sparse'. This will be used by the logical backend
storage driver to determine whether the target volume is sparse or not
(also known by a snapshot or thin logical volume). Although setting sparse
to true at creation could be seen as duplicitous to setting during
virStorageBackendLogicalMakeVol() in case there are ever other code paths
between Create and FindLVs that need to know about the volume be sparse.
Use the 'sparse' in a new virStorageBackendLogicalVolWipe() to decide whether
to attempt to wipe the logical volume or not. For now, I have found no
means to wipe the volume without writing to it. Writing to the sparse
volume causes it to be filled. A sparse logical volume is not completely
writeable as there exists metadata which if overwritten will cause the
sparse lv to go INACTIVE which means pool-refresh will not find it.
Access to whatever lvm uses to manage data blocks is not provided by
any API I could find.
Coverity complains about the return value of ioctl not being checked.
Even though we carry on when this fails (just like qemu-img does),
we can log an error.
For non-local storage drivers we can't expect to use the "scrub" tool to
wipe the volume. Split the code into a separate backend function so that
we can add protocol specific code later.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118710
The next patch will move the storage volume wiping code into the
individual backends. This patch splits out the common code to wipe a
local volume into a separate backend helper so that the next patch is
simpler.
Add 'nocow' to storage volume xml so that user can have an option
to set NOCOW flag to the newly created volume. It's useful on btrfs
file system to enhance performance.
Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest
in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this
bad performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there
are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow,
then all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file
attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files.
This patch tries the second way, according to 'nocow' option, it could set
NOCOW flag per file:
for raw file images, handle 'nocow' in libvirt code; for non-raw file images,
pass 'nocow=on' option to qemu-img, and let qemu-img to handle that (requires
qemu-img version >= 2.1).
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
When the backing store of a volume wasn't accessible while updating the
volume definition the call would fail altogether. In cases where we
currently (incorrectly) treat remote backing stores as local one this
might lead to strange errors.
Ignore the opening errors until we figure out how to track proper volume
metadata.
Use the backing store parser to properly create the information about a
volume's backing store. Unfortunately as the storage driver isn't
prepared to allow volumes backed by networked filesystems add a
workaround that will avoid changing the XML output.
For non-local storage drivers we can't expect to use the FDStream
backend for up/downloading volumes. Split the code into a separate
backend function so that we can add protocol specific code later.
To allow reusing this function in the qemu driver we need to allow
specifying the storage format. Also separate return of the backing store
path now isn't necessary.
Replace the authType, chap, and cephx unions in virStoragePoolSource
with a single pointer to a virStorageAuthDefPtr. Adjust all users of
the previous chap/cephx and secret unions with the source->auth data.
Replace:
if (virBufferError(&buf)) {
virBufferFreeAndReset(&buf);
virReportOOMError();
...
}
with:
if (virBufferCheckError(&buf) < 0)
...
This should not be a functional change (unless some callers
misused the virBuffer APIs - a different error would be reported
then)
The parent directory doesn't necessarily need to be stored after we
don't mangle the path stored in the image. Remove it and tweak the code
to avoid using it.
Due to various refactors and compatibility with the virstoragetest the
relPath field of the virStorageSource structure was always filled either
with the relative name or the full path in case of absolutely backed
storage. Return its original purpose to store only the relative name of
the disk if it is backed relatively and tweak the tests.
Report VIR_ERR_NO_STORAGE_VOL instead of a system error when lstat
fails because the file doesn't exist.
Fixes this problem in virt-install:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108922
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Rework internal pool lookup code to avoid printing the raw UUID buffer
in the case a storage pool can't be found:
$ virsh pool-name e012ace0-0460-5810-39ef-1bce5fa5a4dd
error: failed to get pool 'e012ace0-0460-5810-39ef-1bce5fa5a4dd'
error: Storage pool not found: no storage pool with matching uuid à¬à`X9ï_¥¤Ý
The rework is mostly done by switching the lookup code to the newly
introduced helper virStoragePoolObjFromStoragePool
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104993
Use the new backing store parser in the backing chain crawler. This
change needs one test change where information about the NBD image are
now parsed differently.
Use virStorageFileReadHeader() to read headers of storage files possibly
on remote storage to retrieve the image metadata.
The backend information is now parsed by
virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal which is now exported from the util
source and virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFDInternal now doesn't need to
be exported.
Use the virStorageFileGetUniqueIdentifier() function to get a unique
identifier regardless of the target storage type instead of relying on
canonicalize_path().
A new function that checks whether we support a given image is
introduced to avoid errors for unimplemented backends.
Add a new function wrapper and tweak the storage file backend lookup
function so that it can be used without reporting error. This will be
useful in the metadata crawler code where we need silently break if
metadata retrieval is not supported for the current storage type.
When walking the backing chain we previously set the storage type to
_FILE and let the virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFDInternal update it to
the correct type later on.
This patch moves the actual storage type determination to the place
where we parse the backing store name so that the code can later be
switched to use virStorageFileReadHeader() directly.
My future work will modify the metadata crawler function to use the
storage driver file APIs to access the files instead of accessing them
directly so that we will be able to request the metadata for remote
files too. To avoid linking the storage driver to every helper file
using the utils code, the backing chain traversal function needs to be
moved to the storage driver source.
Additionally the virt-aa-helper and virstoragetest programs need to be
linked with the storage driver as a result of this change.
Different protocols have different means to uniquely identify a storage
file. This patch implements a storage driver API to retrieve a unique
string describing a volume. The current implementation works for local
storage only and returns the canonical path of the volume.
To add caching support the local filesystem driver now has a private
structure holding the cached string, which is created only when it's
initially accessed.
This patch provides the implementation for local files only for start.
Use virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD instead in
virStorageBackendProbeTarget as it now returns all required data and the
storage file is already open in a filedescriptor.
Also fix improper error code being returned when virFileReadHeaderFD
would fail as virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD would set the
return code to 0.
